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middle temporal gyrus
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middle temporal gyrus
Etymology: AS, middel + L, tempus, time; Gk, gyros, turn
the middle of three gyri of the temporal area of the surface of the brain. It runs horizontally between the inferior and superior temporal sulci of the temporal lobe.


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00 Hardcover QP376 The amygdala is the subortical gray matter found rostral to the hippocampus in the medial temporal lobe of the brain.
Here researchers in psychology, psychiatry, education, development, and often unconfessed disciplines review recent findings and report out their own research on such aspects as working memory in schizophrenia, working memory deficits in children aged 7-15 with mild traumatic brain injury, the effects of age and schooling on short-term memory development, neural networks, and processes in the medial temporal lobe.
Again, and as the researchers predicted, the activated areas were those where theory of mind enables us to judge emotion in others, such as the medial temporal and frontal gyri.
 
 
 
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